Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

It is selfish to want others to be selfless.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

The belief that someone loves us, or should or can love us, as much as we love ourselves is one of the most common signs of intellectual immaturity.

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.

Parents want the best for their children … for themselves.

The question is not whether or not someone in your life is using you, but how are they using you.

Every relationship is, to each party, ultimately about them.

Our friends are friends with us not for us but for themselves.